Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Acouple of online editions of U.K. newspapers reported the recent finds of 30 carvings recovered at an archaeological site in Poland, dating to about 15,000 years ago. Most anthropologists and archaeologists would probably be immediately familiar with the Venus Figurine motif, but the recent media r...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
By way of Northstate Science, who saw it first at Pharyngula, and apparently originated from World's Fair about 2 weeks ago (I'm behind on my blogging...), comes a meme with "the premise that you will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into google, you'll find that you are retur...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The 27th edition of the Four Stone Hearth is up at Sorting Out Science. Sam Wise has done a great job presenting some of the best in anthropological blogging in the last week or two. I'll be hosting this carnival here in a fortnight, so if you have posts you'd like to suggest from your own blog or o...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The next edition of the Four Stone Hearth will be hosted here on 11/21/07 –that's Wednesday! Think about it: lots of folks will be off for Thanksgiving… sitting around… reading blogs on the computer since they're not at work. Get that exposure for your blog this week! Send your latest anthro...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Rock art analysis has received a bad rap in archaeology over the years, but in the last decade or so, some advances have been made to begin changing that. It’s easy to see why many archaeologists might have a hard time with rock art in general: rock art is near impossible to accurately date and it...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Thank you for reading this edition of the Four Stone Hearth. As most of you are aware, the Four Stone Hearth (4SH) is a bi-weekly blog carnival dedicated to anthropology, welcoming post submissions on all aspects of anthropology. The name is taken from the "four" major fields in anthropology: archae...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Humans have always been afflicted by natural catastrophes ranging from tectonic to weather related and, possibly, even impacts from space! But none, perhaps, have found the significance both culturally and destructively, as the volcano. Throughout the history and prehistory of man, volcanoes have er...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The 29th edition of the Four Stone Hearth is now up at Remote Central. I was going to say a word about the next edition, hosting, and submitting, but let me just quote the good people at Anthropology.net (i.e. Kambiz, without whom we wouldn't have the Four Stone Hearth to begin with): The next edit...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I'm making the move to Wordpress. Sorry, Blogger, but I can't risk the chance that you might delete this blog too. Hot Cup of Joe (at WordPress) I'll make the move gradually and will post simultaneously between the two blogs for a while, but eventually all business will be at the new blog address: ...
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Carl Feagans posted an article on Hot cup of Joe - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Gold—everywhere the glint of gold! These were the words of Howard Carter as he recalled first seeing the antechamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb as he flicked his flashlight back and forth. Revealed to Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were effigies of Tutankhamen himself, falcon-headed figures, ...
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